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NewsITC letter backs BBC in EPG dispute
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has given a clear signal that it may force BSkyB to allow BBC1 and BBC2 to keep their disputed slots on the electronic programme guide (EPG), writes Leigh Holmwood
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State of independents
Welcome to Broadcast's first survey of the UK's independent television production sector - the culmination of three months of intensive research into an industry which detests both filling out forms and having its inner machinations probed.
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NewsBBC cameraman killed by mine
BBC cameraman Kaveh Golestan was killed yesterday (2 April) after he stepped on a landmine in Iraq, writes Luke Satchell
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14 housemates get the Big Brother McCall-up
Big Brother becomes even Bigger Brother this year with a record 14 housemates. ...
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They think it's all over...it is for these two!
Sporting greats Gary Lineker and David Gower have quit TV gameshow They Think It's All Over after eight years. ...
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TV show winner is fugitive
A player who scooped£100,000 on a TV gameshow is wanted by Irish police over a car accident in which a teenage gir...
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TV show to put pupils through 1950s exam
GCSE students are to sit 1950s O-level exams as part of an experiment to discover whether educational standards hav...
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It's all over now for Lineker and Gower
Gary Lineker and David Gower are to leave BBC One's They Think It's All Over after eight years. ...
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BBC man dies after stepping on mine
A cameraman working for the BBC was killed in northern Iraq yesterday when he stodd on a landmine as he climbed out...
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Arena's attheraces unit continues to incur loss
Arena Leisure, the race-course owner, fell£6.9 million into the red last year after absorbing the losses from its ...
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C&W recruits Italian to lead revamp
Cable & Wireless, the toubled international telecoms company, ended its two month search for a chief executive yest...
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BBC film maker killed by landmine
A BBC cameraman was killed and a producer injured yesterday when they stepped on landmines while filming near the f...
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Spam and cold knees as C4 tests 1950's schooling
The days when education was characterised by firm discipline, bracing cross-country runs and in-depth clause analys...
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C&W fills vacuum at the top
Cable & Wireless yesterday appointed Italian telecoms veteran Francesco Caio as chief executive on a cash and share...
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Sky unlimited as Murdoch wins at Telepiu and Hughes
Rupert Murdoch's News corporation yesterday won approval for the $1.1bn (£700m) acquisition of Italian pay-TV busin...
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Channel 4 rescues Blair-Brown drama
Channel 4 is to screen a dramatisation of the infamous dinner at the Islington restaurant Granita over which Gordan...
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Rebels vote to force TV sell-off by Berlusconi
Supporters of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government gave their leader a slap in the face yesterday when 17 of th...
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Murdoch close to clinching 'transforming' US satellite deal
Rupert Murdoch yesterday moved close to acquiring Direc TV, a deal that would give him US television distribution f...
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C&W welcomes Signor Caio with£750,000 golden hello
Richard Lapthorne, chairman of Cable & Wireless, has finally got his man, or rather two of them. Instead of one chi...
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NewsLords rally to block ?Murdoch clause'
The government looks set to be defeated in the House of Lords over its cross-media ownership plans, which would allow Rupert Murdoch to buy Five, after two influential peers agreed to oppose the proposal, writes David Rose